The BEST episodes written by Dan O'shannon
#1 - The Wedding (2)
Modern Family - Season 5 - Episode 24
The wedding day chaos continues as the entire party shifts from one contingency plan to another. Guests start to get testy, Mitchell and Cameron are feeling discouraged, and poor Claire shows physical wear and tear.
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Suddenly Susan - Season 1 - Episode 2
To cover a story, Susan spends time with an assertiveness-training guru---who sends her chutzpah level soaring off the charts.
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#3 - Schooled
Modern Family - Season 4 - Episode 2
Claire and Phil embarrass Haley when they drop her off at college; Manny makes Gloria and Jay take a class; Lily gets into a tussle on her first day of kindergarten.
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#4 - Best Men
Modern Family - Season 4 - Episode 17
Mitch and Cam’s friend Sal announces she’s getting married the next day and they are in the wedding; Gloria doesn’t trust her new nanny; Claire bonds with Haley; Phil helps Luke with a girl.
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#5 - The Feud
Modern Family - Season 5 - Episode 15
Luke competes against the son of Phil’s nemesis (Rob Riggle) in a wrestling match; Cam and Mitch ask Claire to pick up Lily from school without mentioning the recent lice incidence in her class; Gloria chaperones a field trip.
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#7 - Diamond in the Rough
Modern Family - Season 4 - Episode 10
When Manny and Luke’s Little League team makes it to the playoffs, Claire and Cameron search for a field to use; Gloria uses a microphone to sing to the baby.
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#8 - Mother's Day
Modern Family - Season 2 - Episode 21
Claire and Gloria's Mother's Day excursion with the kids turns into the mother of all disasters. Meanwhile, Phil and Jay share an awkward moment when they stay home to prepare dinner for everyone. Cameron worries about gender roles in his relationship with Mitchell.
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#9 - Outbreak (a.k.a. Escalation)
Threshold - Season 1 - Episode 11
Lucas is infected with the alien DNA from something he ate. The infectees have harvested crops with the alien DNA. Caffrey must find a way to stop what could be nearly 200 new infectees. Also, one of the aliens approaches her with an interesting revelation.
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#10 - Our Children, Ourselves
Modern Family - Season 2 - Episode 12
Phil and Claire pressure Alex to ease back on her school work, but begin to worry about their own intellectual drives. Jay is upset when Gloria tries to befriend a new couple, and Mitchell runs into an old female flame.
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#11 - The One That Got Away
Modern Family - Season 2 - Episode 24
Jay wants to go fishing on his birthday, but the family insists he have a big party, leading Claire and Mitchell to get trapped in their childhood yard, Phil encounters his college nemesis at the mall and Cameron to have trouble at the bakery.
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#12 - Aunt Mommy
Modern Family - Season 3 - Episode 15
Phil and Claire go overboard with drinks, and divulging personal information, on a night out to celebrate the sale of a house to Mitchell and Cameron’s friends.
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#13 - Airport 2010
Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 22
For Jay's birthday, Gloria gives him the best surprise -- a romantic birthday getaway to Hawaii -- the only kicker is she invited the whole entire family to come along. Everyone arrives at the airport, and it's a maddening scene with forgotten I.D.'s, security breaches and flying phobias.
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#15 - Chirp
Modern Family - Season 2 - Episode 7
Claire and Haley are stuck at home sick. Gloria and Manny's surprise visit at work causes a headaches for Jay. Cameron is swept up by all the lights and cameras when he goes behind Mitchell's back and takes Lily for a commercial.
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#16 - Four Horsemen
Jericho (2006) - Season 1 - Episode 3
After seeing a broadcast via satellite from Asia, Jake gathers a group of people together for information gathering. After finding out that there is information out there, Jake suggests having four search parties to go out to get a better understanding what is going on outside of Jericho. The search parties set off in four different directions.
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#17 - What is... Cliff Clavin?
Cheers - Season 8 - Episode 14
Jeopardy makes an appearance in Boston, and Cliff gets on the show. The Jeopardy! round had all 6 categories Cliff specializes in, such as celebrities or the US Postal Service. But when Final Jeopardy approaches, he loses all his money putting a stupid response "Who are three people that have never visited my kitchen?" and becomes depressed afterwards. Meanwhile someone has stolen Sam's little black book and started ringing all the girls in it.
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#18 - The Last Walt
Modern Family - Season 3 - Episode 20
A visit from Cameron’s father features an awkward dinner for Jay and Gloria at Mitchell and Cameron’s house. Claire helps Luke face the death of an older neighbor, Phil and Alex have a father-daughter bonding experience. Haley throws a party without permission.
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#19 - Undeck the Halls
Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 10
The Dunphy kids are in trouble again, but this time Claire and Phil are threatening to take Christmas away. Gloria and Manny want to incorporate some of their Colombian practices into Jay's holiday traditions, but he wants to keep it his way. Meanwhile Cameron and Mitchell take Lily to the mall for her first picture with Santa, however this Santa isn't very jolly.
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#20 - Dude Ranch
Modern Family - Season 3 - Episode 1
While vacationing on Lost Creek Ranch, the three families try their hands at a little cattle herding, skeet shooting and horseback riding. There are also some big firsts, a huge surprise and an actual face-off between Jay and a cowboy named Hank.
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#21 - Come Fly with Me
Modern Family - Season 1 - Episode 3
Phil pushes Jay to go out with him and fly his new model plane. While Manny takes time out to play with Luke, Gloria accompanies Alex in shopping for a dress. Manny has a heart-to-heart talk with his sister Claire.
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#24 - Art for Art's Sake
Superior Donuts - Season 1 - Episode 12
Franco is shocked when his estranged father, suddenly shows up at the donut shop for his first art show.
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#28 - The Girl in the Plastic Bubble
Cheers - Season 11 - Episode 7
Lilith informs Frasier that she wants to spend a year away from him, sealed in a biosphere with her lover. Frasier reacts to this like any trained psychiatrist - he steps onto the ledge of Melville's and threatens to jump if Lilith leaves him. Lilith and Sam manage to talk him down, but Lilith insists their marriage is over. Once Lilith has gone, Frasier's friends rally round in support of him.
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#31 - Secrets and Lives
Better Off Ted - Season 1 - Episode 13
The team learns a shocking secret about Veronica when an invention goes awry. Meanwhile, Linda tries to set up Ted with another woman.
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#36 - The Audit Couple
The Odd Couple (2015) - Season 1 - Episode 12
When the IRS decides to audit Oscar and his ex-wife Gaby, Felix offers to mediate between the contentious exes when he realizes that he might be the reason Oscar was audited in the first place.
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#39 - Joint Pain
B Positive - Season 1 - Episode 4
After Drew goes through a rough divorce mediation with Julia, Gina gives him a surprise to boost his spirits.
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#41 - Daphne Returns
Frasier - Season 8 - Episode 19
When Daphne returns from her weight loss class, she realizes Niles didn't notice that she had gained weight because of how he remembered her being the last seven years. Meanwhile, Roz writes a children's book based on a story her mother used to tell her, but finds out it is already a book and a movie.
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#43 - The Burning
Threshold - Season 1 - Episode 4
A patient at an psychiatric hospital in Ohio escapes and Molly believes he may have been infected by the alien signal after paintings of glass trees are found in his cell. After further investigation, it is suspected one of the missing Big Horn crew might be involved.
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#46 - Sliding Frasiers
Frasier - Season 8 - Episode 13
Two different scenarios of Frasier's Valentine's Day unfold: in the first he meets a beautiful artist; in the second he stays home alone. Meanwhile, Niles and Daphne either intend to fly to Cancun or to stay home because of Niles' allergies.
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#48 - Rooms With a View (2)
Frasier - Season 10 - Episode 8
Niles prepares to undergo heart bypass surgery. He is surprised to receive a call wishing him well from Maris, who had learned of his plight from a gossipy acquaintance. Frasier tries to keep Roz and the family at ease by researching the procedure (as well as the doctors' backgrounds) and printing out detailed descriptions for everyone. However, he winds up getting on the surgeon's nerves by questioning his approach to the operation. Martin tries to act as though everything is fine so that he doesn't have to deal with the fear and uncertainty of the situation. Roz tries to help the terrified Daphne stay calm. She refuses to think of other things, stating that she has no future until she knows that Niles is all right.
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